Inland by Tea Obreht
FEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST:'THOSE OF YOU WHO'VE BEEN WAITING FOR OBREHT'S NEXT NOVEL WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED''SPECTACULAR' Guardian 'A WONDER' Daily Mail 'SPARKLING' The Times 'EXQUISITE' Observer 'MAGNIFICENT' TLS 'EPIC' Entertainment Weekly 'A TRIUMPH' LitHub 'INFECTIOUS' Financial Times 'A MASTERPIECE' Sunday Express Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, biding her time with her youngest son - who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home - and her husband's seventeen-year-old cousin, who communes with spirits. Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West.
Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of Tea Obreht's talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely - and unforgettably - her own. 'This free-ranging tale of an American frontierswoman should have been on the Booker longlist...
I'm already looking forward to whatever Obreht writes next' Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times'Magnificent... Brings to mind Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison's Beloved' Times Literary Supplement'Exquisite ... The historical detail is immaculate, the landscape exquisitely drawn; the prose is hard, muscular, more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself...
[The] paranormal element reminds us strongly of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo ... Inland also feels of a piece with another recent novel, Sarah Perry's Melmoth' Alex Preston, Observer PRAISE FOR THE TIGER'S WIFE 'The most thrilling discovery in years' Colum McCann'Assured, eloquent and not easily forgotten' Independent on Sunday'A poignant, seductive novel' Observer'One of the most extraordinary debuts of recent memory' Vogue
Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of Tea Obreht's talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely - and unforgettably - her own. 'This free-ranging tale of an American frontierswoman should have been on the Booker longlist...
I'm already looking forward to whatever Obreht writes next' Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times'Magnificent... Brings to mind Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison's Beloved' Times Literary Supplement'Exquisite ... The historical detail is immaculate, the landscape exquisitely drawn; the prose is hard, muscular, more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself...
[The] paranormal element reminds us strongly of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo ... Inland also feels of a piece with another recent novel, Sarah Perry's Melmoth' Alex Preston, Observer PRAISE FOR THE TIGER'S WIFE 'The most thrilling discovery in years' Colum McCann'Assured, eloquent and not easily forgotten' Independent on Sunday'A poignant, seductive novel' Observer'One of the most extraordinary debuts of recent memory' Vogue